Thursday, January 24, 2013

Juneau's Perseverance Theater is offering students at local schools and colleges a "pay-what-you-can" preview of their new musical, Bigfoot and Other Lost Souls," which will have its formal premiere at the Anchorage Performing Arts Center on Friday the 25th.

The preview is Thursday evening - tonight - and to assure you get a seat, you should be there by 7:00 p.m. It will be in the Sydney Laurence Theatre.

The plot goes like this:

It’s 1981 and Bernie Bernstein, novice scriptwriter and shoe-size eleven narrow, is broke and brokenhearted. She takes the only job she can get: writing a Bigfoot documentary. The quest launches her into the woods where she meets a fugitive Weatherman, a Bigfoot expert and his wife, a Scottish cable-access camera crew, and the sheriff of Mt Shasta and her dog. This is a World Premiere musical written by Adrien Royce and Tony Award-winning composer Mark Hollmann.